Button and button-fastening



"H; PENNIE. Button and Button Fastnings.

Nu-224,303. Patehted Feb. 10,1880.

UNITED STATES PATENT OF ICE.

HENRY PENNIE, or BROOKLYN, ASSIGNOR or ONE-HALF or HIS RIGHT TO JOHN PENNIE, JR., 0F ALBANY, new YORK.

BUTTON AND BUTTON- FASTENING.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent ,No. 224,303, dated February 10, 1880.

' Application filed November 13, 1879.

To all whom it may concern 7 Be it known that I, HENRY PENNIE, of the city of Brooklyn, in the State of New York, have invented a new anduseful Improvement in Buttons and Means for Attaching Them to Fabrics or Leather, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to buttons and their means of attachment to fabrics or equivalent material. V

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a side viewof my improved button and fastening, partly in section, attached to a fabric, and Fig. 2 represents the same with the button slightly separated, the view being taken at right angles to that of Fig. 1. Figs. 3 and 4c are detail views. Figs. 5 and 6 represent modifications.

A designates the body of the button, and B the shank thereof, which is firmly secured to said body and provided with a hook, a. This hook may have a bow form, as shown in full lines in Fig. l, or it may have the form indicated by dotted lines in said figure.

(J designates a metallic attaching-piece, shaped as shown in Fig. 3, and consisting of eye 0, anchor-shoulders e e, and contracted neck m. Piece 0 is made of thin metal, which is first cut and pressed into the concavo-convex form shown in Fig. 4. Afterward the middle portion of the blank is crimped into the form shown in Fig. 3.

F designates the fabric to which the button is to be attached. G designates a flexible The shape of the anchor-pieces, which bend toward the fabric, will prevent them from engaging with any foreign substance. The joint of the button shank and fastener is wholly above or. in front of fabric F. e

What I claim as new is- 1. In combination with a metallic eye, 0, adapted to protrude through a fabric, a button having shank B, provided with flexible hook at, which is adapted to pass through said eye and be closed upon shank 13, substantially as set forth.

' 2. In combination with a button having a flexible hooked shank, a metallic attachingpiece, 0, having an eye adapted to project above thesurface of the fabric toward the button, said attaching-piece being provided with anchor-shoulders e eand neck 00, substantially as set forth.

HENRY PENNIE.

Witnesses:

ALEX. SELKIRK, CHARLES SELKIRK. 

